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Windows 7, A First Look: How Could You Go Wrong with an Operating System Made by Microsoft?
There is a great deal of interest in the new Microsoft Operating System.  Based on my experience with the Release Candidate, I believe that this is a real improvement over any previous version of Windows.

In this session I gave a bit of history about its evolution, outlined and demonstrated a few new features, and discuss upgrade options.

Additional notes for this sessions can be found at www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/windows7

Note: I just found another article by Ed Bott at ZDnet about alternative legitimate ways to get Windows 7 inexpensively:

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)

Video of this Presentation

I had a little difficulty this week with the video and had to finish with a screencast.

Windows 7 Overview from Greg Dhuyvetter on Vimeo.

PowerPoint Slides

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Recording, Posting, and Distributing Screencasts: Becoming a Multimedia Superstar!

Screencasts are remarkably simple and inexpensive to produce.  With some practice, anyone can make a professional looking instructional video.

Further notes on this presentation can be found at

www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/screencasts

New Website/Podcast

“Changing Platforms/Changing Paradigms”

www.PlatformsandParadigms.com

Video of this presentation

Tech 20 Season 2 Session 2 from Greg Dhuyvetter on Vimeo.

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An Introduction to Social Networking Sites: I Don’t Have Space in My Life for Myspace, and I Can’t Face Facebook

May 15, 2009

Like them or hate them, social network pages like Facebook and Myspace have become a widespread method of meeting and communicating for students and for adults.  As teachers we don’t have to have our own Facebook pages, but it is important that we understnd this phenomenon so we can separate the hype and the hysteria from the reality and so we can give students and parents appropriate adbvice and direction direction.

Video of This Presentation

Tech 20 Session 13 from Greg Dhuyvetter on Vimeo.

PowerPoint Slides from This Presentation

 

Further Links May Be Found at:  www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/socialnetwork

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